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Individual Rights – Equal Protection. In the long-running saga of Rothe Development, Inc. v. Department of Defense and Small Business, a small business is challenging the racial classifications in Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act as a violation of … Continue reading →

Florida Supreme Court denies government’s attempt to rehear case After we won our tremendous Supreme Court victory in Koontz v. St. Johns Water Management District in 2013, the Court sent the case back to the Florida courts. There, the district attempted to … Continue reading →

The case of Abigail Fisher may be on its way to the Supreme Court a second time. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied her petition for rehearing en banc. Judge Garza filed a short dissent reiterating the points he made in his … Continue reading →

PLF friend Jennifer Gratz published an op-ed in the Washington Times today on the Administration’s desire to see racial preferences continue indefinitely. Here’s a snippet: In today’s increasingly pluralistic society, race usually does not — and certainly should not — determine what … Continue reading →

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued the latest in a long line of decisions in the case of Abigail Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Ruling for the University, the Court highlights the supposed benefits of considering … Continue reading →

The latest episode of Idiotic College Administrators, brings us this disgrace from the President of Western Washington University: “[I]f in decades ahead, we are as white as we are today, we will have failed as university.” It seems the President of WWU, Bruce … Continue reading →

Last week I was in Washington, D.C. for the oral argument in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. This is the case that is challenging whether voters have the right to prohibit racial preferences by government. In 1996, California voters becase the … Continue reading →

A few months back I reported on the case of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) v. Kaplan Higher Education Corporation (Kaplan). This is the case where Kaplan instituted a policy of running credit checks for applicants to certain positions that … Continue reading →

This morning we learned that some “civil rights groups,” — i.e. groups that think skin color should factor into government decision making — have complained to the City of Santa Clara, the NFL, and, the San Francisco 49ers, that there are … Continue reading →

Earlier this week I participated in oral argument before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for our case in Associated General Contractors of America, San Diego Chapter v. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). As a condition of taking federal highway … Continue reading →